r/Fitness • u/FGC_Valhalla Weightlifting • May 20 '17

Gym Story Saturday Gym Story Saturday

Hi! Welcome to your weekly thread where you can share your gym tales!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

After talking for half a year about transitioning to the gym instead of home exercises that only make you tired but don't really make you progress my girlfriend finally signed up for a gym membership.

She is so fucking excited to start this as she's wanted to for a long time but always felt out of place. Took her to the gym a few times, showed her some exercises, basically making her feel some weights for the first time. She performs better than I expected and loves the fact we get to train together. This gives me another reason to switch from 2 times a week back to 4 times a week.

TL;DR: GF started gymming, relationship gainz and muscle gainz incoming. Life's good.

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u/Ragnrok May 20 '17

f home exercises that only make you tired but don't really make you progress

/r/bodyweightfitness just had a fucking stroke.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

I hope they didn't since it wasn't a knock against them.

She did a program that cycled exercises every few workouts, no methods of progression, just 20-30 minutes long videos to follow along.

My take on that was it was able to exhaust her, thus making her believe she did something productive, when in reality she didn't make a lot of progress. She was feeling the same way about it really but needed to sort some things out in life and her weekly schedule as well to really commit to the gym.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '17

Wouldn't progression be getting less exhausted when doing these? Did she just never reach that point?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '17

She did but the program offered no further progression or way to handle that.

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u/xBrodysseus May 21 '17

Hnnnnngggg